Just want to share a few resources I recently discovered. First, these twitter profiles consistently post good data analyses, along with relevant articles and comments.
Ethical skeptic's focus lately has been non-Covid deaths in the U.S., and how the rate of them is actually increasing. His website has a bunch of useful info, e.g.:
This guy focuses on the UK. Also has a website.
Handley also has a good blog (he's also the author of a book on vaccines).
Also, for people who like math, I didn't realize I didn't understand false-positive rates until I read this article: Could most positive COVID-19 tests be wrong? -- Sott.net
ADDED: Forgot Ivor Cummins, with a focus on Ireland. Here's his YouTube channel.
Ethical skeptic's focus lately has been non-Covid deaths in the U.S., and how the rate of them is actually increasing. His website has a bunch of useful info, e.g.:
Pull-Forward Effect/Fatality – also see ‘Death from/Death with Covid’. The group of people who were already in the process of dying (age and/or illness related) – who died 1 to 40 weeks earlier than they would have, because they caught Covid-19. This shows as a dip in the death rate after Covid is over. The pull-forward effect can be seen in the chart to the right. In this case, two significant segments of time exist. First is the period in which Covid directly or indirectly precipitated an increase in deaths attributable to known natural causes (9,079 fatalities overage versus normal). Second is the period thereafter where these additional deaths served to also create a hole in the death rate starting 8 weeks later and onward (13,429 fatality deficit versus normal). In this instance, Covid-19 impacted death rates by ‘pulling forward’ deaths which would have occurred in July and August, and forced those to occur in April and May. As of the publication of this chart to the right, it is estimated that we have experienced possibly 40-45% of the pull-forward deficit. The full pull-forward deficit will not be known until as far out as May of 2021. This data was obtained from pivot analysis of the Big 14 mortality database scraped from the National Center for Health Statistics; Weekly Deaths by State and Cause of Death; 29 Aug 2020; Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19.
This guy focuses on the UK. Also has a website.
Handley also has a good blog (he's also the author of a book on vaccines).
Also, for people who like math, I didn't realize I didn't understand false-positive rates until I read this article: Could most positive COVID-19 tests be wrong? -- Sott.net
ADDED: Forgot Ivor Cummins, with a focus on Ireland. Here's his YouTube channel.
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